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Melanoleuca verrucipes (Fr.) Singer, Revue Mycol. Paris 4(1-2): 68 (1939) Armillaria verrucipes Fr., in Quélet, Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard Sér. 2 5: 317 (1872)
Habitat: On soil, decayed woodchips and leaf litter.
Notes: Unknown in Britain until collected on mulch in Middlesex (Highgate Woods) in 2000. Now also known from Buckinghamshire and Surrey. A distinctive species, unlikely to have been overlooked, and probably an introduction, spreading due to the increased use of woodchips as mulch.
Distribution: E: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 106069
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 254, pl. 307
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 148
I:, in Bon, M., The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe: 352 pp. (1987), p. 165
D:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 4: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Strophariaceae, Tricholomataceae (3), (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 4: 191 pp. (1999), p. 155
I:, in Krieglsteiner, G.J., Die Grosspilze Baden-Würtenbergs - Band 3 3: 634 pp. (2001), p. 380
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